"Mars is empty now. Five hundred years from now, it'll be full of people."
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"Something bad happened on both Mars with its dried-up watercourses and Venus with its runaway greenhouse effect. Could something bad happen on Earth too? Our species currently turns row upon row of environmental knobs, without much regard to long-term consequences."
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"It was obvious to me that we could never colonize Mars without reusability, any more than America would have been colonized if they had to burn the ships after every trip."
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"In our time, we have sifted the sands of Mars, we have established a presence there, we have fulfilled a century of dreams!"
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"If there is life, then I believe we should do nothing to disturb that life. Mars then, belongs to the Martians, even if they are microbes."
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"Mind your speech a little lest you should mar your fortunes."
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"Well, half of half our faction.' 'In some circles they call that a quarter, Mar,' Lynn says."
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"I shall remain on Mars and read a book."
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"Do nothing to mar its grandeur ... keep it for your children, your children's children, and all who come after you, as the one great sight which every American should see."
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"There is no pleasure pure and simple, and some care always comes to mar our joys."
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"If Mars formed life, then life on Earth could have been seeded by life on Mars, making every life form on Earth descended from Martians."
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"Mars once was wet and fertile. It's now bone dry. Something bad happened on Mars. I want to know what happened on Mars so that we may prevent it from happening here on Earth."
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"I agree that we should go back to the moon and on to Mars. We should treat all objects in the solar system, including comets and asteroids, as exploration targets."
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"I'd send Christina Aguilera to Mars cos she'd scare all the aliens!"
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"Elvis up in Michigan and maybe out in Mars."
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"Have you any idea how to wake a hibernating Elder?” Machiavelli shook his head. “Mars, what about you? Any advice?” “Yes. Don’t."
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